Reapers and Angels

by Margie Eileen Jones

  Sebastian chuckled then gently went to push William off of him.

  “Well two can play at this game Sebastian. Just know you were asking for it.”

  William said as he looked over at Kingsly who was sobbing since he wanted Sebastian to kiss him.

  “Kingsly, bind him and lock the door.”

  William said as Kingsly suddenly smiled and did the spell making Sebastian go stiff and his eyes go wide. He tried to scramble away, but it was impossible as it felt like bindings were tied around him making it impossible to move. Kingsly than locked the door.

  “What are we doing William?”

  Kingsly asked happily as he looked down at Sebastian with a wide grin.

  “We are going to get kinky with an Angel. That is what you wanted right darling?”

  William asked to Kingsly with a wicked look in his eyes as Sebastian was now panicking.

  “Oh! Well, I don’t really want to rape him William. I wanted him to come to me a bit more willingly, but I will play for a little while.’

  “Say Bassy, can you really tie a cherry stem with your tongue or were you just teasing me?”

  Kingsly asked as he sat down on the bed looking at Sebastian with a lovesick look in his eyes. Sebastian did not know if he wanted to answer that question so he simply tried to look away.

  “I am sure he can Kingsly, now play with him while you can and then unbind him so we can get on with the rest of the day.”

  William said as he watched Kingsly who at this point wasn’t sure what to do. He was all a twitter at being able to have Sebastian to himself even for a moment.

  Kingsly was so excited to have Sebastian to himself for a moment as he unbuttoned a bit of Sebastian’s shirt to play a bit with that chest hair. Kingsly’s only problem with being with William was he did not have chest hair and in the past Kingsly had human lovers for a short time with body hair enjoying having a man around with a bit of chest hair. That his only complaint about being with William was the man had no chest hair to play with where Sebastian did which was part of the reason Kingsly adored him so much for so long.

  Kingsly ran his fingers through those beautiful obsidian locks like he had always wanted to and then rained butterfly kisses down that neck and nibbled a bit on Sebastian’s ear. Then Kingsly suddenly sat Sebastian up and hugged him tightly in his arms.

  “Oh Bassy, I adore you. I know you do not want me, but I love you. I love you too much to keep you tied up, but someday I hope you will give me a real kiss like you did with William.’

  “Although I fantasized about all three of us being together, I know now how much I love William. Please don’t tease us anymore ok? It is not fair when you are so very beautiful to us and we cannot keep you.”

  Kingsly said as he gently kissed Sebastian on the lips before doing the unbinding spell.

  Both William and Sebastian were surprised Kingsly did not even grope him. There were tears of love in Kingsly’s eyes towards both men.

  “Well I guess you both need to find out what is going on with this trial since I do not wish to be gone long from my dearest Calis and I need those ear muffs so I can keep my head.”

  Sebastian said as Kingsly looked at William who had both Sebastian and Kingsly follow him out to the waiting room. The meeting took another five minutes before Kingsly and William were called in. The doors were then shut and Sebastian found himself bored to death for about twenty minutes since the reapers did not think to have some reading material in this waiting room. It was really too bad since they could use some magazines in here and books.

  When the doors flew back open, Kingsly was frowning, but not sobbing so that was good. William simply followed Kingsly out with a book in hand which he gave to Sebastian.

  “It is a gift from the Grim Reaper. He wishes for you to have this.”

  William said and Sebastian read the title. It was all in the language of Angels and demons. It was something only he and Christian could read. Well, maybe Ripley if the Undertaker wanted to help with this information. It was mainly about human spirits.

  “He must think me a novice since this information is outdated at best.”

  Sebastian said as he thumbed through the book with Kingsly every once in a while, pulling him away from walking into a wall since Sebastian was so focused on the book.

  “Well there must be something in there he wanted you to know that is new. I doubt he would have given you a useless book.”

  William said since the Grim Reaper rarely did anything without a good reason. It was towards the end of the book Sebastian found an envelope with some writing on it. It was for him with his true Angel name on it and it did not have any other’s name on it. He opened it and it cut his finger a bit as a drop of his blood fell upon the parchment changing the color of it to gold. Then the book itself changed as well as the document inside which at first had been some generic information. It was in fact now up to date information and some added spells for capturing, binding, and subduing a spirit.

  “It is a reaper’s log, a very old reaper’s log. It is in a language I do not understand, but I do know what that is. I have one of my own that keeps track of spirits and souls.”

  William looked at the book in Sebastian’s hand. Sebastian wondered if he could change the language so that William could read it. It was an interesting book from what he was reading so far.

  Biting his finger that was cut, Sebastian allowed another drop of blood to hit the parchment and nothing happened for a moment until suddenly everything changed again to gold this time with the words moving around to the reaper’s language. Sebastian handed the book to William who took it and carefully read the pages while Kingsly this time tried to keep William this time from walking into walls.

  “Where are we headed to anyway William?”

  Kingsly asked since they were almost to the end of the hall of records and heading towards the exit.

  “We are going to go see Mickey. Sebastian needs a pair of ear muffs made and we need the replica to be exact.”

  William said since this might take some time.

  “Oh, well I am going to be off then. I have a few things to do before we start work.”

  Kingsly said as he kissed William sweetly on the lips before wandering away to do whatever it was he had to do.

  Once they got to the exit, William opened the door and a bright light practically blinded Sebastian. William was used to the light so it was nothing for him, but Sebastian really could not see.

  “Take my hand Sebastian.”

  William said as he had Sebastian grab it and took the blinded Angel towards a building on the left of the hall of records. It was a rather small building and he opened the door ushering Sebastian inside.

  “We have phosphorescent eyes so we are used to the light Sebastian. I am certain eventually if you do come here again you will get used to it or we will give you sunglasses. It is just a bit of heaven’s light so I am surprised it would blind you.”

  William stated since as an Angel, William figured Sebastian would know this light quite well.

  “I forgot how bright it was. I have been in darkness for so long and I am used to the light of earth that I did not recall heaven’s particular brilliance. Even an Angel can be blinded by heaven’s light if they have been away so long.”

  Sebastian said in frustration. It used to seem so dim on earth he totally forgot how everything in heaven always was so bright that it blinded one if you were gone for any long length of time.

  “Hn…I did not know that. I guess we reapers are simply used to it.”

  William took Sebastian to where there were a few reapers working on some different things like sewing up outfits and one was using a knitting machine to create something else.

  They walked past these people to where a middle-aged reaper sat working on some piece of jewelry finishing the details on it.

  “Mickey this is Sebastian. We need a replica done and it must be exact. This order comes from the Grim Reaper himself.” />
  William said and Mickey finally looked up at William carefully putting the ring onto a ring holder with several others. Mickey had light brown hair with brownish gold eyes that had the phosphorescent tint to them. His glasses were rather thick with tortoise colored frames. The man was also very short, Calis perhaps could have even been taller and Calis was a tiny boy.

  “What does this Angel need?”

  Mickey asked as he regarded the Angel looking in longing at those wings.

  “Well, we need ear muffs made exact, the white ones from the Midnights’ relocation project.”

  William said and Mickey got up went to a huge vault, and then climbed on a step stool opening the vault door. After which he disappeared into the large door for about five minutes then came back out with a pair of white ear muffs that were similar to the ones that they were looking for.

  After closing the door and locking the vault, Mickey brought them over and had Sebastian inspect them. They were an exact match other than the ink and the finish. The mother of pearl was not quite right and the signature was written rather than burned into the wood.

  “We did these out of cherry wood which was actually rather eccentric of us to do, but we did want a good match. The fur was simple white rabbit fur which isn’t an issue and is quite common. However, I take it there is a problem.”

  Mickey said as he regarded Sebastian’s face. Sebastian nodded that there was indeed an issue, although minor.

  “I can fix them, but I will need burning tools to do so and just a small piece of mother of pearl.”

  Sebastian stated only for Mickey to shake his head no.

  “We do the work here, just tell me what is missing and we shall have it fixed for you. We also will need the nanobots to make an exact copy of this one.”

  Mickey stated since he was going to make these right if it took him all day to do it.

  “Well the signature was burnt into the wood with black ink dating back to the mid eighteen hundred’s; I am assuming it was a common ink. Also, the mother of pearl was a bit thicker on the top of the band with no flaws since the chip that it once had in it I repaired when Calis had worn them. We did not get his blue muffs until much later and they too were specially made.”

  Sebastian explained as Mickey took the muffs back. He immediately went through his tools finding his burning tools and proceeded to go over the signature with a magnifier hooked to his glasses to get this exact.

  “Come back in about an hour and we shall have these ready for you.”

  Mickey said to William and Sebastian. Sebastian wanted to stay to watch, but William pulled him away. Mickey did not like people looking over his shoulder when he worked.

  William took Sebastian outside where he was once again blinded, but rather than taking him to the hall of records, he took him by the waist and then flew up above this side of the hall of records over to the other side of the building to where the homes of the reapers were at.

  Sebastian noted that the areas here were more like large apartment structures. William took Sebastian to the top floor and landed on the bright red welcome mat.

  When William unlocked the door, he pulled Sebastian in and closed then locked the door behind them.

  “Welcome to my home Sebastian.”

  William said as Sebastian was shocked at the size of it since from the outside it looked like a regular apartment with maybe enough room for a single family. Inside the place was large enough for five people or more with beautiful hard wood floors. There were blood red Egyptian rugs on the floors with furniture in the room that was worth a fortune in the antique market.

  Suddenly, there was a rush of little legs and a wagging nubby tail as a bulldog puppy playfully attacked William jumping up on his leg.

  “Hello Charles….”

  William said as he bent down and picked up the puppy that was on a mission to lick anyone it could get its little mouth on. Kingsly came out of one of the rooms to see who was here since he had stopped in to gather a few things before heading to the store to buy something else in red for their home. This time he was thinking of drapes.

  Sebastian noted there was a lot of red in the room and apparently, it was fairly new. It did not necessarily match with the deep forest green drapes and dark blue furniture, but William did not seem to mind.

  “Oh, hi William, I was just getting ready to go out and buy new drapes to replace these horrid green ones.”

  Kingsly said and William put Charles down.

  “So how long will you be gone dear?”

  William asked since he may have to put Charles in his kennel after they left.

  “Not long, I think I found the perfect set for our home. They are the loveliest shade of ruby and orange with tassels with real Swarovski crystals hanging from them. They will look so lovely and we can give these green ones to Liam. He seems to like green, poor boy.”

  Kingsly said as he gathered his coat pet the wiggly little puppy in William’s arms and kissed William sweetly on the cheek before heading out the door.

  “Oh Bassy, if you are interested you might talk to William about the furniture in here. We are swapping out the couches and chairs for something much nicer. Your place seems to have so much blue, such an awful color, but they might go in your home better than in ours.”

  Kingsly said before leaving with William sighing setting down the puppy who started to jump all over Sebastian who simply ignored it until it started barking up at him.

  “Really William, a dog and red everywhere? I am assuming this is your home so why do you allow it?”

  Sebastian asked as he grasped the puppy by the scruff of its neck flicking its nose with his finger then growling at it as the shocked pup whimpered for a minute then settled down as he put it on the floor and next thing he knew the dog was sitting next to him looking up at him with adoration in its eyes.

  “Well, I love Kingsly, I do not mind the red, and Charles really isn’t a problem. I knew when I had Kingsly move in that my home would change and much of this furniture needs to be replaced anyway. The couches are old and the only thing Kingsly promised he would not change is my office. He doesn’t go in there much anyway.”

  William said as he offered Sebastian a seat and proceeded to go gather tea and biscuits for them both.

  Sebastian had to admit he liked the blue couches and chairs. They had velvet cushions and mahogany wood legs and backs. They would look so nice in the study at Midnight Manor if William was serious about getting rid of them.

  The puppy followed Sebastian over to the couch and sat at his feet looking up at him wagging its little nubby tail. Sebastian frowned at the dog and tried to ignore it only for it to start whimpering at him pawing at him every once and a while.

  Sebastian finally gave in and pet the stupid thing before it ripped a hole in his pants with its tiny claws with how many times it was pawing at him. The puppy nuzzled and licked his hand wagging its tail a mile a minute.

  William came out with the tea and biscuits watching Sebastian with Charles.

  “So, you like dogs?”

  William asked as Sebastian finally stopped petting Charles.

  “No, I hate dogs. I think they are annoying, loud, obnoxious, stinky, and a waste of space that chew up everything they can get their little teeth on. I am only being nice since it is your dog.’

  “I prefer cats. Cats are aesthetically beautiful and perfect. There is no creature alive that is as fine as a cat. If I had my way, we would have a house full of them, but of course Calis wants a dog. He wants a dog like yours. English bulldogs are stubborn, pigheaded, and it takes great patience to make them obey.”

  Sebastian said and William chuckled. It was obvious Charles loved Sebastian and he could tell Sebastian was doing his best at this point not to throw the puppy that kept pawing at him.

  “Charles come….”

  William said to the puppy who simply ignored him until William picked the puppy up to take him to his kennel. Charles whimpered and whined as he w
as taken away trying to get back to Sebastian.

  Sebastian looked at his pant leg making sure there were no holes in it and took one of the cookies on the tray eating it finding it to be quite good. It was a sugar cookie with red sprinkles.

  William came back after settling the puppy down and giving him a dog treat as well as a pig ear to chew on. The puppy had all sorts of toys and a soft red and black checkered blanket in his kennel.

  Sebastian heard the puppy crying a few times and howling not feeling sorry for it in the slightest. However, he did feel bad if it bothered William.

  “Are you all right William?”

  Sebastian asked as he sipped his cup of tea.

  “I am fine why do you ask?”